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Thread #150703   Message #3548098
Posted By: Jim Carroll
12-Aug-13 - 04:28 AM
Thread Name: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
Not a great deal of "agreement" here
The link also takes you to the "history" of Israeli aggressive settlement and how it has effevted the size of Palestine from what was agreed in 1948 to what it is now.
Your constant hiding behind carefully selected 'historical facts!!!' and deliberately avoiding the real ones is both dishonest and an indication that you don't even belive your own arguments
Jim Carroll

Israeli Gov't mocks 'Peace Talks' with announcement of 1200 New Squatter homes in Occupied Palestine
POSTED ON 08/12/2013 BY JUAN COLE
The Israeli government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that it would take bids on nearly 1200 new housing units on Palestinian territory occupied by Israel.
The news from Tel Aviv further underlines what a charade the John Kerry-pushed "peace talks" are between a powerful Israel occupying some 4 million stateless Palestinians and the officials of the PLO (who lost the 2006 elections to Hamas before the CIA and Mossad made a coup for them in the West Bank). As RT notes, "Today, more than 100 Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank are home to some 560,000 Israelis living among 2.5 million Palestinians." ('Living among' is apparently a euphemism for "stealing land from").
The "peace talks" are supposed to lead to a Palestinian state with sovereignty over Palestinian territory, which is impossible as long as the Israeli squatters chomp away at the very land on which a state would be erected. Netanyahu's spokesman said that the new building is only in parts of Palestinian territory that are not envisaged to return to the Palestinians from Israeli control in any negotiations. But the new building includes venues like East Jerusalem or the West Bank that Palestinians do in fact envisage recovering in any successful peace talks. Netanyahu is simply dictating beforehand what the Palestinians can have, rather as Elysium dictates to the slum-dwellers of earth in the Blomkamp film.
http://www.juancole.com/2013/08/announcement-squatter-palestine.html